A Shambling Mound:This just in: Gatorade is a replacement for nothing and is not actually good for you.

Meh, I've read somewhere that the HFCS is actually more efficient for replenishing glycogen quickly (or something) than sucrose or straight glucose, and electrolyte replacement is important if you're doing strenuous exercise for a fairly long period of time (and hence sweating a LOT). However, 99% of the people swilling gatorade while they treadmill or bro-pump at the gym, or drinking it because they like the taste and aren't actually doing ANY exercise, are just loading up with a butt-ton of extra sugar and salt they absolutely don't need.

incendi:A Shambling Mound: This just in: Gatorade is a replacement for nothing and is not actually good for you.

Meh, I've read somewhere that the HFCS is actually more efficient for replenishing glycogen quickly (or something) than sucrose or straight glucose, and electrolyte replacement is important if you're doing strenuous exercise for a fairly long period of time (and hence sweating a LOT). However, 99% of the people swilling gatorade while they treadmill or bro-pump at the gym, or drinking it because they like the taste and aren't actually doing ANY exercise, are just loading up with a butt-ton of extra sugar and salt they absolutely don't need.

She's the picture of health. Just imagine this whiny 15 year old droning on and on about how much healthier she is than everyone else in between talking about Justin Bieber and Twilight.

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I wonder if she realizes that water is also a flame retardant chemical. Or that eating a vegan diet while still developing can be very dangerous if not planned and executed extremely well, which she and her silly parents are probably not doing.

I switched to Gatorade after quitting drinking all soda/caffeine, turned out something about the soda or caffeine was really screwing with my health.

I drink tons of orange gatorade and never noticed anything bad from it though I recently switched to the powder one cause it's cheaper.. lucky for me, no BVO in that one to make me retarded or whatever it does.

Either the writer is being cute, or has no idea whatsoever of how teens are today. No self-respecting modern sophisticated 15-year-old will ride a bus. She would ride to school in her 22-year-old boyfriend's Mustang.

incendi:doczoidberg: I thought veganism was supposed to make you skinny.

Can't eat meat, but you can slurp down all the HFCS you damned well please.

I once went through a phase where I pretty much lived on rice and Cap'n Crunch. I would joke that I had become a vegetarian by default, and it is hilarious how many people equate that with being really healthy. There are a lot of assumptions that "not eating meat" equals "fresh vegetables and lots of tofu".

My cousin is super fat (like 5'5 and 250 pounds fat) and she's been a vegan since she was a teenager in the late 80's / early 90's. She was into any popular counter-culture shiat she could shovel down her throat, you know, like, MTV level counter culture shiat. She probably owned a Che Guevara t-shirt before anyone else did, in XXXL.

Nothing stopping you from belting down the sugary junkfoods as a vegan, and junk carbs like pasta and bread.